Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If it's original, you'll have to ram it down their throats.
Howard Aiken
When a professional race car driver races, his pulse gets lower and he relaxes.
Jun-ichiro Hagino
When I code it is the same thing.
Documentation is like sex. When it's good, it's fantastic. When it's bad, it's still better than nothing.
Anonymous
They won't tell you that they don't understand it; they will happily invent their way through the gaps and obscurities.
V.A. Vyssotsky on software programmers and their views on specifications
The goal is to deliver clean code that works - now.
Kent Beck
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Sir Arthur C Clarke
Computers are getting smarter all the time. Scientists tell us that soon they will be able to talk to us. (And by 'they', I mean 'computers'. I doubt scientists will ever be able to talk to us.)
Dave Barry
Often it is the means that justify the ends: Goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
Alan J. Perlis
There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
Jeremy S. Anderson
If you have a procedure with ten parameters, you probably missed some.
Alan J. Perlis